Gif-tastic Timemorphosis: 133 Kent Avenue Then and Now
We came across a March 1929 picture of the little Federal-style house at the northeast corner of North 6th, and couldn't resist throwing it in the Pixelicious Timeshiftator, which uses animated GIF technology - originally developed by 15-year-old girls to create cool MySpace icons - to show how the location has (or amazingly hasn't) changed in the past 78 years.
Notice the fire alarm box on the corner remains today. There appears to be a restaurant operating in the first floor of 131 Kent Avenue at left (the shingle reads either "Lounge" or "Lunch" - maybe a predecessor of George's from the mid-1950s?). And the wall of the building at right appears to have a huge advertisement painted on it (H.O. Oats?).
posted by i'mnotsayin @ 2:53 PM
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11 Comments:
Awesome! I noticed that building just the other day and took a picture of it. Thanks.
This is so cool. Glad you like my house. It feels like we have been renovating since 1924.
Doug
I just noticed the Williamsburg retrospective. The pictures are all taken from in front of 133 Kent Ave.
doug, do you know any additional history of your property or the adjacent block?
Great pictures, and just think I actually slept there.
I have been there over 30 years and have learned a lot from people born next door over 100 years ago and from lots of other sources. I guess I have seen a lot of history too. There's too much to post in one shot but I'll give you some history of the building. The front part was built around 1810 which means it was there when the amusement park was there and before Brooklyn was Brooklyn. Way before Brooklyn was part of NYC. Around the turn of the century it was a bar and the owner lived upstairs. The brick building behind it was not there and the lot was a beer garden. When prohibition came the brick structure was built and was probably a speakeasy. After prohibition the upper part of the brick building was built as an apartment for the son of the bar owner. The whole building was commingled and a soda bottling business was started, "Roman Company Beverages" My ceiling was tinned up and part of the tinning was one of their signs. A basement cleanout revealed a 55 gallon drum of syrup. Some of my neighbors worked there as kids. Various businesses occupied the store from butcher to baker to restaurant. In the early 70's the neighborhood and the building were at rock bottom. This is when I arrived. There was no sign of the old facade and storefront and the front was covered with corrugated aluminum with a piece of plywood for a front door. Some neighborhood kids had chipped in and rented the entire building as a clubhouse. It was called the "establishment" The windows had been painted black and the inside was glossy red and blue. I discovered a pastel drawing on the back of a piece of sheetrock I removed that depicted an outside view of the house with people passed out all around and a police car pulling up. It was in a cartoon like format with a caption that read "In the year 2010 when aliens study the ruins of our civilization they will find this and say "This is how they lived". I met people who hung out in the "establishment". For many years the corrugated aluminum had "the establishment sucks" graffitied across the front. Around 1990 the sign was sort of painted over by a film crew shooting the movie "Quick Change with Bill Murray and Gina Davis. They were using the building as background and although it was meant to represent a really dangerous neighborhood they probably did not want the distraction of the actual words to be a part of the story. Part of the scene was shot from the front of the building looking out at the skyline and some was shot from the other direction. In the shot with my house in the background they look at my house and then at each other and say "We'd better get the hell out of here". So I have gone full circle from having a famous ugly scary house to one featured on this site.
I took some pictures of National Sawdust which is a really interesting structure. How can I post them or send them to you?
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